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		lamontcg on April 29, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: sudo and su Being Rewritten in Rust for Memory Saf... Why would sudo/su need a lot of tricky unsafe code?

AnIrishDuck on April 29, 2023 [–]

Using grep, it looks like they mostly use unsafe code to interface with existing C libraries. In those cases it's roughly as tricky as writing C in the first place IMO, so still probably a net win.

Gigachad on April 30, 2023 | [–]

So over time we can trim this down as more C libraries are upgraded to Rust.

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